Individual Advocacy
• Focuses on changing the situation of one person – to protect his or her rights
or to improve individual services.
• Two common forms : 1.
Informal advocacy ; is undertaken by
individuals, their parents, brothers and sisters, relatives, friends.
2. Voluntary or not to profit
community based organizations that pay staff to advocate for
individuals
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SYSTEM ADVOCACY
• Works to change the situation of a whole group of people who share a similar
problem, or to change a service system. System advocacy can benefit many
people. It also strives to prevent problem.
• System advocacy
encourages changes to the law, government and service
provider policies and community attitudes
.
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SYSTEM ADVOCACY 2
• Seeks to influence change in the broader political and social arenas
because without change at this level, positive change for individuals is more
difficult to achieve. • Speak out for
new legislation, policies and practices
. • Highlighting
where policy is in place but not being implemented
. • Involving in coalitions
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Other terminologies
• System advocacy • Structural advocacy
• Structural legal aid Indonesian • Social advocacy?
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WELFARE NO. 11 2009
IN LAW NO. 11 2009
Pasal 16
1Advokasi sosial dimaksudkan untuk melindungi dan membela seseorang,
keluarga, kelompok, dan atau masyarakat yang dilanggar haknya.
2 Advokasi sosial sebagaimana dimaksud pada ayat 1 diberikan
dalam bentuk penyadaran hak dan kewajiban, pembelaan, dan
pemenuhan hak.
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2009
Disaster Victimization
and System Advocacy
Indonesia, Thailand,
Japan
Indonesian Disaster Victims
• Triggered by Aceh Indian ocean earthquake –tsunami 2004
• NGOs NPOs played active and significant role in conducting system
advocacy for disaster victims.
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The Role of NGO MPBI
• Masyarakat Penanggulangan Bencana Indonesia Indonesian Society for
Disaster Countermeasures have conducted such measures as follows :
1. Initiating the draft of Indonesian Disaster
Management Act, including Presidential Decree and bylaws both in national and local
level.
2. Creating a framework of Community-based
disaster risk reduction management
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3. Campaigning, promoting and disseminating humanitarian standard
SPHERE Project for volunteers.
4.Conducting research, discussion, and seminar on disaster
countermeasures issues.
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Disaster Management Act
• Indonesia does not have Disaster Management Act until the enactment
of Law No. 24 year 2007 on Disaster Management Countermeasures
• Previously, the laws concerning disaster management are only
presidential decree No. 3 year 2001 on Coordinating Board of Disaster
Management.
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LACK OF MANAGEMENT CAPACITY ON DISASTER RESPONSE
•
Delay in the management of emergency response • Lack of coordination in planning and programming for
post-disaster recovery • Institutional framework is more focus on emergency
response, rather than post-disaster recovery • Funding more emphasizes on emergency response
LACK OF UNDERSTANDING IN DISASTER RISK REDUCTION LACK OF UNDERSTANDING IN DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
• Lack of understanding in the preparation of disaster preparedness and risk reduction
• Lack of institutional performance in the management of risk reduction
• Lack of planning and programming for risk reduction • Lack of incorporating risk disaster mitigation into spatial
plans
Hadi, 2007
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1. Recognizing the right for dignified life and livelihood and that the
